HornetQ- the new ultra high performance enterprise grade messaging system from JBoss, sets a record breaking score in the SPECjms2007 industry standard benchmark for JMS messaging system performance.
HornetQ 2.0.GA obtained scores up to 307% higher than previously published SPECjms2007 benchmark results, on the same server hardware and operating system set-up.
The peer-reviewed results are available on the spec.org web-site: http://www.spec.org/jms2007/results/jms2007.html
The results were obtained by Kai Sachs and Stefan Appel from an independent research group at the TU Darmstadt, Germany.
Their release announcement can be found here:
http://www.dvs.tu-darmstadt.de/news/specjms2007Results_HornetQ.html
Work is currently occurring on HornetQ 2.1 which includes another round of enhancements to take performance to yet another level.
For more information on HornetQ, please see the web site http://hornetq.orgSPEC® and the benchmark name SPECjms2007® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. The results used in the above comparison refer to submissions made on the 17 Sep 2009 and 20 Jan 2010 by TU University Darmstadt

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